3.10.2013

It is clear and intelligible to the point of obviousness
that evil lies deeper in human beings than our socialist–physicians
suppose; that no social structure will eliminate evil; that the human
soul will remain as it has always been; that abnormality and sin arise
from that soul itself; and, finally, that the laws of the human soul are
still so little known, so obscure to science, so undefined, and so
mysterious, that there are not and cannot be either physicians or final judges.

Pretentious Precepts

"First Things means, first, that the first thing to be said about public life is that public life is not the first thing. First Things means, second, that there are first things, in the sense of first principles, for the right ordering of public life."

“A free society cannot survive if we are so free that nothing is expected of us.”